Description
Watercolor, paper; 48 x 32 cm
Signed on the underside: Mrs. Józefowa Rapacka / in memory of / Nartowski / 26th / Olszanka 4/VII
Józef Rapacki - a bard of Mazovian nature - placed the local fields, meadows and moors, rivers and swamps, pine or birch groves at the center of his work. Throughout his career he was associated with the Warsaw art scene. In 1907 he settled a few dozen kilometers from Warsaw, in the village of Olszanka, located between Zyrardow and Skierniewice. He and his wife Gabriela built their own house there in 1912-13, and the village became a small colony at the time, which included actors Leokadia Pancewiczowa and Józef Leszczynski (Rapacki was his uncle), painter Czeslaw Tanski, a close friend of the artist, and painter Stefan Popowski (Gabriela Rapacka was his sister), critic Henryk Galle and chemist Wojciech Swietoslawski. Rapacki regularly visited the nearby home of the Górski family in Wola Pękoszewska, while Józef Chełmoński's Kuklówka was also nearby. Thus, the outskirts of the Bolimowski Forest became a place for painting experiments in the field of Mazovian landscape at the beginning of the century. Asking price 6000
Estimate 8000 - 10000
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Tadeusz NARTOWSKI
1892-1971
Graduated from the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, studying under Kazimierz Stabrowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc and Konrad Krzyżanowski. He was a proficient watercolorist valued for his drawing and subtle color modulation. From 1912 he exhibited regularly at "Zachęta". Of the other Warsaw galleries, the Abe Gutnajer and Czesław Garliński salons showed his watercolors. He also exhibited in Krakow, Lublin and Gdynia. In 1935 he had an exhibition in Berlin. Nartowski's work was repeatedly awarded, including a bronze and gold medal from the TZSP in 1927 and 1933.
